Re: Jabberwocky/AI Language Learning

On 3/19/07, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
>...... I was pretty sure that I'd seen a language-
> learning algorithm that did just this--in fact, I'm pretty sure a
> grad. student at UCSD created something that did this to see how
> well a machine could learn languages with varying word order
> types, accusativity, and case marking.  (Incidentally, it found out
> that it's more difficult to learn languages where objects come
> before subjects, and slightly more difficult to learn ergative
> languages.)  That's why I thought that maybe that's what the
> Jabberwacky program was doing.
There's a bot I would like to teach gzb to!  I wonder how
it would handle gzb's case-postposition system?

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Jim Henry
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